Kwame Dawes was named Chancellor Professor and professor of English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He was also named the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, the quarterly literary journal published in conjunction with the university.
Since 1992, Professor Dawes has been a professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
A native of Ghana and a celebrated poet, Dawes earned a Ph.D. at the University of New Brunswick.
